What’s new in vRealize Operations Manager 6.6

vRealize Operations Manager 6.6 focuses on enhancing product usability, accelerating time to value and improving troubleshooting capabilities.

• Simplified usability and faster time to value capabilities:
  • New HTML5 user interface provides an easier and consistent experience.
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  • The Getting Started dashboard allows for quick navigation.
  • Persona based dashboards provides for answers in one place. Dashboards are separated into categories such as Operations, Capacity and Utilization, Performance Troubleshooting, Workload Balance, and Configuration and Compliance.
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  • Out of the box integration with vSAN and vRealize Automation provides quick time to value.
• Watch videos related to the new dashboards that are introduced with vRealize Operations Manager 6.6 here.
• Added Native vSAN management capabilities:
  • Allows for centralized management across stretched clusters.
  • Ability for complete vSAN management, which includes administering performance, capacity, logs, and configuration and health.
• Fully Automated Workload Balancing:
  • Ensures performance across the datacenter’s with fully automated workload balancing, across clusters and across data stores.
  • Ensures DRS Configurations and provides the option to set DRS automation level for individual objects.
  • Predictive DRS takes action to preempt resource contention.
  • Utilizes operations analytics to optimize initial placement of workloads through vRealize Automation.
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• Watch this video for a demo about automatic workload placement.
• Additional out-of-the-box compliance capabilities:
  • Ability to tackle compliance problems through the new vSphere hardening dashboard
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  • Extends compliance through PCI & HIPAA compliance for vSphere.
  • Ensures business configurations through new cluster, host, and VM configuration dashboards